10 WWE NXT Wrestlers Who Should Go To Raw Or SmackDown Next

If there's one thing that wrestling fans love to do, it's speculate. We love to assume wrestlers have backstage heat when they lose, we love to assume that certain wrestlers are jumping ship to AEW when their contracts run out, but - perhaps more often than all of that - we love to assume that we know who the next person to be called up from NXT to RAW or SmackDown will be.

Although NXT has been treated more like an equivalent to RAW and SmackDown lately, it got its start as WWE's developmental territory. As a result, we're conditioned to believe that every NXT superstar will eventually ascend to the "main roster" when the time is right, even though this may not be the case.

Nevertheless, once it was announced that Matt Riddle would be joining the SmackDown roster, one of the immediate questions among fans was "who's next?"

And to be fair, it's usually fairly easy to determine who is next based upon current booking. For example, if the NXT Champion loses their title, they're most likely leaving NXT. Of course, this isn't the only justification for assuming somebody's on their way up - in some cases, there's just nothing left for them to do at Full Sail.

Based on these factors (and a few others), these 10 superstars seem like they could be called up in the near future. Let's just hope they're handled better on the main roster than some other NXT talents have been...

If the dirtsheets are to be believed, then Chelsea Green is being groomed for a main roster call-up in the near future.

Green's time in NXT thus far has been brief and somewhat uneventful, but she does have a reputation that precedes her run with the company. She had a run with the Impact Knockouts Championship as the "mentally-unstable" Laurel Van Ness in 2017, and she enjoyed a cup of coffee in Lucha Underground's fourth season as Reklusa.

Unfortunately, since arriving in NXT, she has largely been lost in the shuffle.

Originally, WWE let her run with the "psychotic" gimmick that she'd honed on the independent circuit, but after returning from a broken wrist in December of 2019, she didn't appear to have any gimmick whatsoever. After briefly and inconsequentially being paired with manager Robert Stone (the former Robbie E of TNA fame), Green has enjoyed a few recent successes, but ultimately nothing to write home about.

While she's certainly no Manami Toyota in the ring, those who have followed her career know that she is capable of creating a compelling character. If she can't quite get her footing in NXT, perhaps she can recapture that lightning in a bottle on the main roster.